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Preventing Cyberheist, A New Internet Creed: 'Think Before You Click!'

Here at KnowBe4 we focus on Internet Security Awareness, and provide a battery of information, services, and training to help raise awareness of potential threats and loss that uninformed ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: Getting Social With KnowBe4

If you want to keep up with the latest news and information about Internet Security, then you can not only follow KnowBe4 right here on our blog, but you can also check us out on our ...
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ISAT: Looking For The One-minute Elevator Pitch? Look No Further.

It's easy to understand why Internet Security Awareness Training now is an essential part of your defense-in-depth. KnowBe4 is the market leading on-demand Internet Security Awareness ...
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Cybercrime: Banks Are Under Intensive Assault From Cybercriminals

As I promised last week, I'm going to be blogging periodically about various information and articles from the commercial advocacy site with the very apt URL of ...
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Cybercrime: FFIEC Plans To Boost Online Transaction Authentication Guidelines for US Banks

We picked this news item up from the SANS Newsbites Newsletter, Volume XIII, Issue: 8, dated January 25, 2011, entitled “U.S. Banks to Get Updated Online Authentication Guidelines.” ...
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Symantec Covers Top Social Networking Cyberheist Scams, Including Phishing

The Norton/Symantec “Your Security Resource” newsletter recently featured a story entitled “ Top 5 Social Media Scams” that’s worth a read-through. It talks about the kinds of scams and ...
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Anatomy of a Blantant Phishing Message

In earlier blogs about Phishing (especially Phishing Primer Part 1 and Part 2) we described phishing as an artful attempt to get readers to click links in e-mail, thereby opening ...
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Fabulous Anti-Phishing/Cybercrime News Resource

[caption id="attachment_130" align="aligncenter" width="488" caption="The banner at YourMoneyIsNotSafeInTheBank.org says it all!"] [/caption] The name of the site that provides the ...
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Hackers Pull A Tasty Variation on the ACH Cyberheist Technique

On January 19, PC World reported an interesting twist on an old but still favorite phishing scam called the ACH, or Automated Clearing House, scam in a story entitled "Hackers Steal ...
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Phishing Primer Part 2: Spotting the Lure

Last Thursday, we posted a blog entitled "Phishing Primer, Part 1;" here is Part 2 in that ongoing series of brief expositions on this fascinating subject that is also a clear and present ...
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FDIC Issues "Patriot Act" Phishing Scam Warning

Earlier this week on January 18, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued its tenth special alert for 2011 (SA-10-2011). Its summary provides an excellent explanation ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: The Enduring Value of User Education and Awareness

There’s an old saying that “If you create a system that any idiot can use, then only idiots will find it useful.” And while many companies and organizations may feel compelled to “dumb ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training Basics

A great many “teaching stories” from various traditions emphasize how the press of daily life, or normal human emotions, can crowd out and turn off common sense. At its core foundation, ...
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Phishing Primer, Part 1

Phishing takes its inspiration from the piscatorial arts, where an angler uses an attractive and perhaps even appetizing-looking or –seeming lure (well, to a fish anyway) to entice an ...
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Phishing for Trouble: At-work Email Behavior Can Affect the Bottom Line in Unexpected Ways

Even financial professionals can get snared at work by e-mails that purport to deal with routine, straightforward transactions. One interesting phishing scam that occurred as recently as ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: KnowBe4 Is Going On The Road

KnowBe4 will be making a splash in 2011! We have several events on our calendar where you can see us and we hope to see you at several of these events where we would love to show you our ...
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Phish-Prone Percentage: 20%

Today we did a "Free Security Audit" with a company that wanted to test their 100+ employees. When we talked to the IT Manager and told him what simulated attack we were planning, he said ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: Dynamic Content Updates - The Secret Sauce

Up to now, Security Awareness Training was static. Canned instruction sessions that could be a year old, an eternity on the Internet. Cyber criminals move fast though. Malware evolves ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: 7 Reasons Why Organizations Use Online Training

7 Reasons Why Organizations Use Online Training 1. Reduce Costs - How you manage training is always about how you manage costs. 2. Access to Talent - Especially hard when it gets to ...
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Internet Security Awareness Training: Defense-In-Depth

What is defense-in-depth? Organizations defend their networks on each of the six levels in the graph you see. End-user Internet Security Awareness Training resides in the outer layer: ...
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